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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 5 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/5

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I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing sevl [several]
rates and duties I find the Amount in whole to Eighteen pounds Two Sh. [Shillings] & Six pence St. [Sterling] and that
and upon the 22d day of Decemb [December] 1786 I delivered to Mr Alexander Gordon of Camelton Collr. [Collector] for the Shire
aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained my Oath that notices were left with the
sevl [several] inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the date anexed to their respective names that were to be
charged with the sums hereby certified to be due from them
William Currie
John Alvez J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

Survey of the
Rates and duties on Female
Servt. [Servants] in the Shire of
Kirkcudbright from the 5 of
Apr. 1786 to 5 Apr 1787
£18.2.6
Exd. [Examined]

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 5 - Counties (A-L) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/5

Volume 5 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Aberdeenshire, Argyll, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dunbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Lanarkshire.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)

The Scottish Exchequer, and subsequently the Court of Exchequer, were concerned with the accounting of collected taxes in Scotland. These taxes include the Carriage tax (1785-1798), Cart tax (1785-1798), Clock and watch tax (1797-1798), Dog tax (1797-1798), Farm horse tax (1797-1798), Servant tax (1777-1798), Hearth tax (1691-1695), Horse tax (1785-1798), Inhabited house tax (1778-1798), Land tax (1645-1831), Poll tax (1694-1698), Shop tax (1785-1789), Window tax (1748-1798). Following the Consolidating Acts (38 Geo. III cap. 40 and 41), the duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carts, carriages and dogs were incorporated in Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes (1798-1799).

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